Sweet Talk
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We talk to Darra Goldstein, editor of The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets; we meet Douglas Quint, one of the founders of New York City's Big Gay Ice Cream Truck; and we learn the simple art of Italian dumplings with chef Jenn Louis, author of Pasta By Hand. Keith Wilson, curator of the exhibit "Ancient Chinese Jades and Bronzes" at the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., explains ancient Chinese wine vessels.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- July 31, 2015 (originally aired)
- July 29, 2016 (rebroadcast)
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| 0:00.0 | Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Ana Gonzalez, through this complicated country. |
| 0:08.1 | We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing. |
| 0:24.3 | Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts. |
| 0:31.0 | It's the splendid table from APM, American Public Media. |
| 0:35.5 | I'm Lynne Roessette or Pasford. |
| 0:37.4 | The Oxford companion to sugar Sweets is 888 pages long. |
| 0:43.3 | It begins with al-a-mode in addiction and ends with Zupa English. |
| 0:47.8 | The entries in between are fascinating. |
| 0:50.7 | The woman who made them all work is Darragoldstein. |
| 0:54.0 | One of my favorite entries in the book is The History of Confetti. The woman who made them all work is Darragoldstein. |
| 1:02.0 | One of my favorite entries in the book is The History of Confetti, which is such a pallid shadow of what it once was. |
| 1:03.7 | You know, we throw paper now. |
| 1:04.1 | Right. |
| 1:08.5 | But originally it was candied nuts or candied seeds. |
| 1:10.6 | It was a sign of status. It was very expensive to do. was a sign of status. |
| 1:12.4 | It was very expensive to do. |
| 1:15.0 | Also a sign of fertility or the presumed fertility of the couple |
| 1:18.2 | and wishing them to procreate well. |
| 1:21.1 | A look at sweetness in all kinds of ways |
| 1:23.6 | this hour on the splendid table. |
| 1:35.0 | Music this hour on The Splendid Table. This is The Splendid Table from APM, American Public Media, |
| 1:39.6 | the show for people who love to eat. |
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